My Edible Fruit Trees: Berry Trees

alpine strawberry (Seedling) ^7/10

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 8

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

I find that these plants don't do very well here.......it's too dry!!!  They really need watering every day, and like a bit of shade.

Alpine Strawberry (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

I LOVE alpine strawberries and grow white and also red fruited kinds. They are easy to grow and love light shade.

The fruits are very small but have a strong, lucious strawberry taste. The plants are clumping and most alpine varieties don't produce runners. They easily reseed themselves so you don't have to worry there. They do well in pots or in the ground. I have mine planted in a shadehouse where they look great among the ferns.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April

Planted: 1992

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 20

Fruit Harvest: 50 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Keep an eye out for slugs and snails. Birds often don't bother with the white ones.

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Appleberry

Comments: -

Australian native, needed another climber and I always prefer edible to decorative! Very pretty, delicate looking plant. Growing well up a trellis on a fence.

Planted: 2011

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Austromyrtus dulcis — Midyim Berry

Barbados Gooseberry - Tsunya

Comments: - The Rose Cactus, Pereskia aculeata, is also known as Barbados Gooseberry, Lemon Vine or Tsunya. Both the juicy yellow fruit and the fleshy leaves are edible. The plant grows well in Melbourne but so far it has never flowered or fruited here.

Planted: 2017

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Baw Baw Berry (Cutting)

Comments: - Wittsteinia vacciniacea, the Baw Baw Berry, is an ultra rare species endemic to Victoria growing only in a few locations in alpine areas. Tolerant of frost and snow. Has fragrant flowers and edible greenish white fruit.

Planted: 2022

Height 20 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Berry - Blackberry

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Berry - Jostaberry

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Berry - Marionberry

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Berry - Marionberry

Berry - Silvanberry

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Berry - Silvanberry

Berry - Silvanberry

Berry - Thornless Blackberry

Berry Tomatoes

black mulberry (Grafted)

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Blackberry

Planted: 2009

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Blackberry (Thornless)

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Blackberry - Murrindindi (Cutting)

Comments: - Planted in a pot in early December 09, then replanted a few weeks later in the ground. Doing very well considering the messy transplanting process. I will be propagating my blackberry in the next few days by 'tip layering'.

Fruiting Months January and February

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Question: Anyone have any advice or wisdom on 'tip layering' cane varieties of plants?

Blackberry - Thornless Waldo (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: -

Compact, suited for pot culture, thornless. Slow to establish. Burns easily in hot summer sun.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2011

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

White oil to control aphids on fruit

Organic Status:Organic

Blackberry - Waldo

Blackberry - Waldo (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: -

Slow growing at first but takes off in spring.

Dormant most of the year then flower and fruit forming in spring, growing very fast through summer. Big juicy berries, love the taste and easy to manage plant.

The photo shows them with my heratige raspberries.

Fruiting Months September, October, November

Planted: 2013

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 8 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chook poo, blood n bone

Organic Status:Organic

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Cutting)

Comments: -

This is probably more of a novelty fruit, but I thought I'd give it a go - a small fruit whose interior contains a black-seedy pulp that tastes (and sort of looks) like black-berry jam!

Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Seedling) ^8/10

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Seedling) ^8/10

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: - Self fertile 

BLUE BERRY

blueberry (Cutting)

Comments: - Trying Sharpe Blue and Misty.

Planted: 2009

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun